CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

阴沉沉

yīnchénchén

dark (weather, mood)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

dark (weather, mood)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 阴沉沉 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 阴沉沉 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

雨让秋天的日子阴沉沉的。yǔ ràng qiū tiān de rì zi yīn chén chén de。

The rain made the autumn day dismal.

2021 年 11 月 4 日，阴沉沉的一天。在披萨店，我没办法像平常一样坐在窗外的桌子吃披萨，因为那里挤满了皮肤黝黑的青少年。於是，我坐在了室内靠窗的位置。我可以看到外面桌子上一个棕色皮肤青少年毛茸茸的手臂。之后，我去了咖啡馆，点了杯我常喝的冰绿茶。在那里，我遇到了一个名叫阿尔玛的菲律宾老朋友，她以前在街角的便利商店工作，现在从事医疗保健行业。2021 nián 11 yuè 4 rì， yīn chén chén de yī tiān。 zài pī sà diàn， wǒ méi bàn fǎ xiàng píng cháng yī yàng zuò zài chuāng wài de zhuō zi chī pī sà， yīn wèi nà lǐ jǐ mǎn le pí fū yǒu hēi de qīng shào nián。 yú shì， wǒ zuò zài le shì nèi kào chuāng de wèi zhì。 wǒ kě yǐ kàn dào wài miàn zhuō zi shàng yí gè zōng sè pí fū qīng shào nián máo róng róng de shǒu bì。 zhī hòu， wǒ qù le kā fēi guǎn， diǎn le bēi wǒ cháng hē de bīng lǜ chá。 zài nà lǐ， wǒ yù dào le yí gè míng jiào ā ěr mǎ de fēi lǜ bīn lǎo péng yǒu， tā yǐ qián zài jiē jiǎo de biàn lì shāng diàn gōng zuò， xiàn zài cóng shì yī liáo bǎo jiàn háng yè。

A grey day it is on the 4th of November of 2021. At the pizzeria, I could not sit eating my pizza at my regular table just outside the window, as a crowd of fresh brown teenagers were eating pizza there. So, I sat inside by the window. I could see the hairy arms of one brown teenager at the table outside. I went then to the cafe to have my usual iced green tea. I saw a longtime Filipino friend named Alma, who worked before at a corner convenience store, but now is in health care.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 阴沉沉.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 阴沉沉.

Directly before

日子阴沉沉1

Directly after

阴沉沉的2

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 阴沉沉

What does 阴沉沉 mean in Chinese?

阴沉沉 (yīnchénchén) means dark (weather, mood).

How do you pronounce 阴沉沉?

阴沉沉 is pronounced yīnchénchén.

Is 阴沉沉 an HSK word?

阴沉沉 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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